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The showdown over the WTO was NOT about stopping trade
The seattle tea party
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- Bill clinton's anti-trust meow
- Cell phone alert
- On-the-job drug testing a bust
- "intelligent" vending machines
- Clean clothes in bangor
- Membership has its privileges
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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Clean clothes in bangor
About half of the clothing sold in American stores is made in sweatshops. While politicos and CEOs pay lip service to dealing with this problem, the good citizens of Bangor, Maine are doing something about it.
In 1997, a retailer and consumer partnership launched the Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign, putting the city on record against sweatshop-stained clothes. Clothing stores in Bangor, Bar Harbor, Belfast, Blue Hill and elsewhere now research the working conditions of their suppliers and develop a "clean clothes inventory" in their shops. The retailers promote clothing that has been certified by independent monitors to be produced in non-sweatshop conditions, emphasizing garments with union labels. And the shops have knowledgeable sales people who can talk with customers about where the stock has come from.
The Campaign has persuaded the Bangor city council to enact policy that requires the local government to buy police uniforms, soccer league equipment, jailhouse sheets, and so forth from non-sweatshop suppliers.
You can do this in your town, too—just keep an eye out for the WTO! Call the Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign at 207-947-4203 to learn how.